root privileges problem

[Petey Pablo 0]

How to enable or run as root? Thank you hercules staff!

[Fatal Error]: You are running Hercules with root privileges, it is not necessary, nor recommended. Aborting.

 

 

[evilpuncker 504]

read this

[Petey Pablo 0]

read this

 

After uncomment I got core warning and still not working

 

core.c: In function ‘usercheck’:
core.c:220:2: warning: #warning This Hercules build is not eligible to obtain support by the developers. [-Wcpp]
 #warning This Hercules build is not eligible to obtain support by the developers.
  ^
core.c:221:2: warning: #warning The setting I_AM_AWARE_OF_THE_RISK_AND_STILL_WANT_TO_RUN_HERCULES_AS_ROOT is deprecated and should not be used. [-Wcpp]
 #warning The setting I_AM_AWARE_OF_THE_RISK_AND_STILL_WANT_TO_RUN_HERCULES_AS_ROOT is deprecated and should not be used.

 

Edited August 28, 2016 by Will Su

[Monsieur Panda 38]

Why do you want run hercules with root ? You just can't. You don't need.

[Petey Pablo 0]

Why do you want run hercules with root ? You just can't. You don't need.

 

The solution on this is to create another user to change the root?

[Monsieur Panda 38]

Yup, must easier for everything, more safety. And you can't break your server. If you don't know how to do, check my guide at B.6 but don't read after step C. From Step D it follows the old conf system so no need to do it, it won't work.

Edited August 28, 2016 by Monsieur Panda

[Dastgir 1246]

It was never recommended to run as root. However, we have recently changed source to disallow running it as root, instead of just giving a warning message.

Creating a user in linux is not so hard, but merely few commands, which you can find in guide from previous post.